Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality, Volume 2 looks at Caribbean sexuality from around the region and through different disciplines. These include sociology, gender, cultural studies, linguistics, and psychology with topics ranging from masculinity, sexuality, courtship and conflict in relationships, cultural expressions of sexuality, women's role in crime, and violence. The Caribbean has at times been difficult to define culturally and geographically. This book makes a bold attempt at including various language, cultural and geographic groups that include Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Haiti and Caribbean retentions from Ghana. It moves beyond the tapestry of Volume One by weaving in new scholarship thereby creating a more diverse view of the Caribbean and its origins. The contents are research-driven, original works that provide empirical data, theoretical perspectives, and accounts of lived experiences. It will be of interest to the reader exploring a wide range of perspectives on Caribbean sexuality. Karen Carpenter is a psychologist and Florida Board Certified clinical sexologist.

She is a professor of Gender, Sexuality & Psychology at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, and a senior research associate in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Professor Carpenter is the editor of Interweaving Tapestries of Sexuality and Culture, Volume 1; author of Love and Sex: The Basics and Questioning Caribbean Jewish Identity; and co-author of Language, Race and the Global Jamaican. Her research interests include gender and human sexuality, psycholinguistics, and phenomenology.